Thankful Thursday!

Leaving it to Trader Joe's to come up with cubed crushed garlic.  If you know me, cooking is challenging to say the least.  I would have garlic stinking up the cupboard until it was rotten and I had to throw it out.

Thanks to Trader Joe's, I always have garlic ready to pop into my recipes.  I LOVE it!!! Most of my recipes have garlic in them and I always found it a pain to have to peel and mince my own garlic. I miss the days of Korea where they sell garlic pre-peeled and ready to go by the bagful.

Thankful Thursday

Today I'm thankful for Rocketman, who has wrapped this "girly" Korean scarf to battle subzero temperatures to snow blow our driveway before work.  When I saw him come in last month with this scarf wrapped around his head after snow blowing our driveway, I laughed as I told him that it was a women's scarf that I had bought when we lived in Korea. 

He said it was the least "girly" scarf in our winter box filled of hats, scarves and gloves. So after he left for work I took the box down from the closet and dumped everything out onto the floor looking for the masculine scarves I just knew were in there.  I found two very thin, masculine dress scarves. They would not have kept the biting wind off of Rocketman's neck.

I immediately ordered some beautiful and soft merino yarn to knit Rocketman a warm and masculine scarf.  So next time we need to snow blow and Rocketman is home, you won't find any pompoms anywhere in sight.  But I'm thankful that until the scarf is done, he doesn't mind wearing pompoms when the need warrants.

Thankful Thursday!

I am so thankful for Rocketman and his love of photography.  I'm a "Point and Shoot" kinda gal.  Rocketman on the other hand loves a camera where you have to think before you shoot.  Things like lighting, f stops (no idea what that is) and then the software that goes with it all just puts a little boy grin on his face.  He loves that there is always something new to learn and always will be.

              These pictures were taken looking out our window into our crab apple tree.

And to think that his sight came very close to being completely taken away due to a detached retina in each eye.

                                                          His eyesight is far from perfect.

      But he never ceases to amaze me how with his imperfect eyesight, he takes such perfect photos.

Thankful Thursday!

I've really let my "Maedeup Monday's" slid so I decided to start a "Thankful Thursday" with little things that I am thankful for.  For my first "Thankful Thursday!", I am thankful and still get a thrill out of seeing one of my first booklets (This one from 2002) still in the polymer clay section of my JoAnn's store. 

There is an interesting story that goes with that book.  I was participating in my first Designer Showcase at the Society of Craft Designer's Convention.  Debra Nettles, then of Leisure Arts made an appointment with me to discuss my polymer clay work.  At the time, I had a line of "Babies of the Month" and she was interested in doing a booklet on them.  I would have had to give up all rights to the line and didn't want to do that so the appointment ended with some disappointment on both sides.

Fast forward a few months and I got an email from Debra.  She told me that Leisure Arts wanted me to do a booklet of polymer clay miniature animals and the rest is history.  I went on to do five booklets with them.  Who would have thought that little meeting that I thought went so wrong turned out to go so right.